 | David Livingstone, Charles Livingstone - 1865 - 664 pagine
...slaves is notorious. What a humane native of Portugal once said of them is appropriate if not true : " God made white men, and God made black men, but the devil made half-castes." The officers and merchants send parties of slaves under faithful headmen to hunt elephants and to trade... | |
 | George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke (13th Earl of), George Henry Kingsley - 1872 - 312 pagine
...also vice, for its own sake more than for any thing that may be got by it. If the old proverb that " God made white men, and God made black men, but the devil made half-castes" be true, all I can say is, that when his Satanic majesty was at Tahiti, he showed a very pretty taste... | |
 | David Livingstone - 1872 - 646 pagine
...masters to their slaves, but the half castes are very cruel, so that a proverb of the place runs, " God made white men, and God made black men, but the devil made half castes." Most of the native Africans are natural traders, and lov« trade more for the sake of... | |
 | George R. C. Herbert (Earl of Pembroke.), George Henry Kingsley - 1873 - 348 pagine
...also vice, for its own sake more than for any thing that may be got by it. If the old proverb that " God made white men, and God made black men, but the devil made half-castes " be true, all I can say is that when his Satanic majesty was at Tahiti he showed a very pretty taste... | |
 | 1874 - 532 pagine
...them often enhanced by the drunkenness of the Briton and the murderous treachery of the Spaniard. " God made white men, and God made black men, but the devil made brown ones," is a common proverb here, and it often finds it« justification in fact. Town and inhabitants... | |
 | Théodule Ribot - 1875 - 478 pagine
...inhabitant remarked to Livingstone, " God made white men, and God made black men, but the devil made the half-castes." When two races, both low in the scale,...current in England, speaks in strong terms of the Zambos, or half-castes between Indians and Negroes ; and this conclusion has been arrived at by various... | |
 | Théodule Ribot - 1875 - 462 pagine
...as he, are so much more cruel than the Portuguese ; but such is undoubtedly the case." An inhabitant remarked to Livingstone, " God made white men, and God made black men, but the devil made the half-castes." When two races, both low in the scale, are crossed, the progeny seems to be eminently... | |
 | John S. Roberts - 1875 - 416 pagine
...slaveholders. Livingstone quotes a saying of a humane Portuguese, which indicates the reputation they bear: "God made white men, and God made black men ; but the Devil made half-castes." Neat Tete, a seam of excellent coal, of twenty-five feet in thickness, was visited and examined. Coal... | |
 | Alfred Henry Huth - 1875 - 484 pagine
...must fully agree with the apothegm of an observant Portuguese gentleman quoted by Livingstone, that " God made white men, and God made black men, — but the devil made half-castes." 2 1 Perier, Mem. de la Soc, d'Anthrop. de Paris, vol. iii. 1870, pp. 225, 227-230. 1 Livingstone, Zambeai,... | |
 | John S. Roberts - 1875 - 382 pagine
...Livingstone quotes a saying of a humane Portuguese, which indicates the reputation they bear : ' ' God tnade white men, and God made black men ; but the Devil made half-castes." Neat Tete, a seam of excellent coal,-lof twenty-five feet in thickness, was visited and examined. Coal... | |
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An inhabitant remarked to Livingstone, "God made white men and God made black men, but the devil made half-castes. 
